hey i have the mc-808 and i got the controls down pack but i was wondering if anyone knew if i could download other instruments and put them on my mc-808. thanks.
I'll qualify my answer by saying "I don't own one -- have never seen one -- don't know anyone who owns one". Having said that, I did a little reading on it -- and my take is that I don't think you can download instruments, per se. If you mean patches, I don't think so.
If you mean samples . . . absolutely it is a sampling groove box. You can sample live via microphone or line inputs or you can load (download and load) .wav or .aiff files from a computer. Those files can be samples of almost anything that produces sound (including instruments of course).
If that was either confusing or not helpful, sorry.
There's a pretty good review of the equipment here:
http://remixmag.com/synthesizers_and_samplers/remix_roland_mc_sampling/ that might be helpful for you. If not, come back and ask a little more detailed/specific question and we will do the best we can to give you a good answer.
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